Why White Lines Will Probably Get a Second (and Third) Season

The finale features new beginnings for characters like Zoe Walker (Laura Haddock) and Marcus (Daniel Mays).

The finale's cliffhangers set White Lines up for a second season: "There’s still life in this show yet," Angela Griffin, who plays Anna, tells NME.

Warning: This contains spoilers for White Lines.

White Linesfans, rejoice: The fun isn't over. According to Deadline, the Netflix series was written with a three-season arc in mind. Given White Lines' final episode, we're already predicting what the second season of the show will entail.

In the finale of the Netflix drama, Zoe Walker (Laura Haddock) finally gets what she traveled from Manchester to Ibiza for: answers. At last, Zoe learns what happened to her brother, Axel Collins (Tom Rhys Harries), 20 years ago.

Though the central mystery is resolved, White Lines definitely has potential for a second season. The ensemble drama is more interested in the emotional fall-out from Axel's murder than the crime itself—and for Zoe, the fall-out has just begun.

"You don't realize that your journey is only just beginning," Zoe says to herself, at the end of the series.

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And what a journey it's been. In White Lines' premiere, Zoe leaves her husband and daughter for Ibiza, under the pretense of learning about Axel's death after his body is discovered on the powerful Calafat family's property in mainland Spain. Along the way, she is swept away by the island's hedonistic, carefree environment. She harpoons a guy! She steals bags of cocaine out of banana boat! She has an affair with a professional (and passionate) henchman named Boxer (Nuno Lopes, our new Netflix crush).

But what happens in Ibiza does not stay in Ibiza. Zoe's decisions will haunt her—and knowing the truth might not help a bit. "The truth is overrated. When you find out the truth, it just leaves you cold," Zoe says in the finale.

Here's what we think is in store for Zoe and the rest of Axel's crew in season 2 of White Lines. "There's still life this show yet," Angela Griffin, who plays Anna, told NME.

Given Money Heist's record-shattering international success, Netflix will likely invest in another one of Pina's entrancing dramas. Though White Linesis lacking on the bank robbery front, it has the same appeal as Money Heist. Call it the Pina touch.

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"His character crafting, his story arcs—they’re incredible. It’s mad, entertaining and super-high octane but it’s also rooted in emotional truth. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before,” Harries, who played Axel, toldNME.

Translation? Pina can add season 2 of White Line to his plate, in addition to all those potentialMoney Heist spinoffs.

Locations are being scouted for season 2.

Another sign of hope! Back in February 2020, the Majorca Daily Bulletin reported that location scouts were in the region to check out locations for the show's second season. The first season of White Lines was filmed on Ibiza and Majorca, a nearby island—which means season 2 will remain in the area.

White Lines' non-linear narrative means there's still more to explore.

The season flips back and forth between the '90s and the present day. Aside from Axel, who dies in the '90s, all of the main characters are played by two sets of actors—young, and middle-aged. As a result, there's still more from the characters' pasts to unspool.

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“It’s a non-linear narrative throughout and that leaves the door open for anything to happen,” Harries toldNME. “There’s loads of places it could still go and that’s something really exciting about it.”

This Is Us offers a model for White Lines' future. The beloved NBC show's first season explores Jack Pearson's (Milo Ventimiglia)death, and its impact on his family's lives—much like White Lines' first season does with Axel and his friends. Future seasons of This Is Us still include Jack, but delve into different parts of his past. Will White Lines continue to explore new facets of Axel's unpredictable personality?

Season 2 of White Lines might focus on this long-standing rivalry.

The final few episodes of White Lines seriously escalate the existing tension between the Calafat and Martinez families—as in, Andreu Calafat (Pedro Casablanc) expresses the regret that he didn't kill Pepe Martinez as a baby.

White Lines’ final scene indicates that in season 2, the Calafat and Martinez families will resume their battle for control over the island’s nightlife. Marcus volunteers to make Andreu Calafat's nightclubs even more profitable. Instead of working with drug dealers—like "the Romanians," as they're called in season 1—they could move, and sell, the product themselves in the clubs.

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"You need a leader who's going to go to Afghanistan and Amsterdam and make contacts. What you really need is someone who's going to control the supply from the source," Marcus says.

Of course, Marcus has another motivation: He needs money to pay off his debt to the murdered Romanian drug dealers' wives.

Should Andreu accept Marcus' offer, it will only lead to more bloodshed. The families' fighting in season 1 led to literal deformities—Oriol Calafat (Juan Diego Botto) shattered Cristobal's (Guillermo Lasheras) ear drum during an interrogation about Axel Collins' death, and Andreu was paralyzed in an accident orchestrated by Pepe Martinez in retaliation. Currently, the Calafat family is under the (false) impression that the Martinez family organized Oriol's kidnapping.

There might be a trial—but probably not.

Zoe's father (Francis Magee) spent decades working with a Spanish investigator to learn the truth about his son's disappearance. Now, Zoe knows who is responsible. Will she, like her father, try to bring the perpetrators to to justice?

Perhaps—but it might be harder than she'd like. As a policeman explains in episode 1, "In Spain, you cannot be prosecuted for murder once 20 years have passed."

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After learning of the Spanish police's inactivity, Zoe decides to investigate his murder herself, and learns that Anna and Marcus are responsible. Unless Zoe brings them back to England, like her father said, they won't get a trial.

Expect to see the same cast.

The last we see of Zoe, she's scattering her father and brother's ashes on the beach. Where will she go afterward? Back to her husband and daughter in Manchester? Straight to the police station? Or, perhaps, to a beachside hut of her own? Chances are, she and Boxer aren't getting back together, considering she interrogated him with a pressure washer hose.

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Similarly, the Calafat family is experiencing changeover. After Boxer quits his post as a bodyguard, Marcus volunteers to take his post as the Andreu's top dog. How will his new job impact his relationship with Andreu's daughter, Kika (Marta Milans)?

Finally, Anna looks worried in her final scene, and she should be. She's marrying a man who openly does not love her. Her older daughter has cut her off. Most crucially, everyone knows her darkest secret: Not only did she kill Axel—she was sleeping with him, too.

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Our most pressing question, though, is this: Will these U.K.-born characters be able to stay in Ibiza, trying to grasp onto their perpetual youth? Only season 2 of White Lineswill tell.

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